Current and Recent Projects in the ESALab

• Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau (2009-2012)

• Project SLUCE: Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects (2001-2012) - renewed 2008

• Central African Forests and Institutions (2008-2012)

• Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains (2007-2012)

• Land Use and Vulnerability to Flooding at Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province, China (2005-2009)

• Program in Human and Environmental Systems Interactions (2005-2010)

• Spatial Neighborhood Analyses in Support of Understanding Health Risks (2003-2014) - renewed 2009

• Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Upper Midwest (on-going)

Completed Projects

• Predicting Black Bear Habitat in Michigan's Lower Peninsula (2006-2007

• Research on Process and Pattern at Alpine Treeline

• Modeling Siberian Boreal Forest Land-Cover Land-Use Change and Carbon under Changing Economic Paradigms

• Landscape Change in the Upper Midwest

• Aspen Ecosystem Dynamics

• Influence of Humans, Climate, and Fire on Forest Ecosystems and Carbon Dynamics in Indonesian Borneo